International Marxist Group Archive

Magazines, bulletins and booklets of the IMG and its forerunners, 1961–1984

Hackney Young Socialists oppose 'the Bomb.'

· The Bulletin Vol. 2, No. 5, 2 February 1963 · p. 6 of the scan · 222 words

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The Hackney Y.S. resolution passed for Ammual Conference with only one vote against peais: "This conference of Young Socialists believes that nuclear weapons are a product of capitalist society and can only protéct the interests of the rulers of the world.. It therefore declares its complete opposition to the use or threatened use of these weapons believing that such a policy can never be in the interests of the workers, Conference further believes that 15 years of cold war, culminating in the recent Cuba erisis, have show beyond doubt the futility of relying upon the rulers of ¢the world to achieve or maintain peace and thus resolves to put its faith in the power of the international working class. To this ond, conference , calls upon the Labour Movement to unite around a policy based upon: c 1) Opposition to the manufacture and testing of nuclear weapons by any

country. ii) Opposition to NATO, the Warsaw Pact and all other military

elliances iii) The withdrawl of Polaris and all bases from foreign

countries, iv) Support for CND and all gemine anti—bomb movemonts both

in Britain and abroad, The resolution goes on to call on the YS NO to organise a campaign to oppose Tory warmongering policies and launch a massive = Campaign to bring thousands of young people into political action :

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